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Imagining Black Womanhood
Stephanie D. Sears
其他書名
The Negotiation of Power and Identity within the Girls Empowerment Project
出版State University of New York Press, 2010-09-01
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Gender StudiesSocial Science / Poverty & Homelessness
ISBN143843328X9781438433288
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m-xAD4WKJ0sC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Imagining Black Womanhood illuminates the experiences of the women and girls of the Girls Empowerment Project, an Afrocentric, womanist, single sex after-school program located in one of the Bay Area's largest and most impoverished housing developments. Stephanie Sears carefully examines the stakes of the complex negotiations of Black womanhood for both the girls served by the project and for the women who staffed it. Rather than a multigenerational alliance committed to women's and girls' empowerment, the women and girls often appeared to struggle against each other, with the girls' "politics of respect" often in conflict with the staff's "politics of respectability," a conflict especially highlighted in the public contexts of dance performances. This ground-breaking case study offers significant insights into practices of resistance, identity work, youth empowerment, cultural politics and organizational power.